Huiet v. Atlanta Gas Light Co.

Plaintiff in error contends that the contract was in restraint of marriage, and therefore void as against public policy. “Marriage is encouraged by the law, and every effort to restrain or discourage marriage by contract, condition, limitation, or otherwise, shall be invalid and void. Prohibiting marriage to a particular person or persons, or before a certain reasonable age, or other prudential provisions looking only to the interest of the person to be benefited, and not in general restraint of marriage, will be allowed and held valid.” Code, § 53-107. In the case of Grimison v. Board of…